This evening, on Holy Thursday, the Easter Triduum begins. The Easter Triduum is three days celebrated as one continuous unfolding of the Paschal Mystery. It
I have been called many things in my life: a good soldier, a solid worker, a model employee, and even a good husband. Those things
The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick
My wife likes to tell the story of the old spinster woman who died and went to heaven to the kids in the eighth grade
If you’re looking for new spiritual reading this Lent, I highly recommend Bathe Seven Times, a contemplative look at the seven capital sins, written by
One of the most common objections to the Catholic faith concerns the papacy. Critics say that the papacy is nowhere to be found in history
When you were a child did you ever receive a sharp pinch on the inside of your arm from one of your parents during mass?
It’s Valentine’s Day again. It’s hard to believe now that this annual celebration of romance and érōs ever had any connection with Christianity, let alone
If you want to more fully encounter Christ in your daily life, you might consider signing up for a new, free, online course. “Encountering Christ”
More than twenty years ago I encouraged my Irish mother-in-law to find a Bible Study group and to “get into the Word.” Because we lived
Like a lot of people, I would like to lose weight, but I never found diet and exercise programs to be the easiest undertakings in
Imagine a young Catholic teenager taking a religious history class in a non-Catholic Christian high school. At some point during class discussion the topic of
Who’s going to save our Church? It’s not our bishops, it’s not our priests and it is not the religious. It is up to you,
The unselfish act of donating ones’ organs and/or body after death is a great gesture of impoverishing oneself before one’s Maker while making a life-giving
What defines a Catholic: Baptism and obedience
Is today’s Church suffering from a ‘Mother Wound’? Recently, following a Mass to celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in my parish, I
We can occasionally learn things from comments on articles here at CS and at other Catholic websites as well. Occasionally reading the comments can be
The news cycle is fickle. A big news story is only big until a new big story comes along. This is true even with Catholic
“I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” Thus begins the Apostle’s Creed. The world today remains far from the original
Pew Research’s recent study revealing that a majority Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence but instead believe that consecrated bread and wine are
I recently went to mass at a Convent of the order of St. Clare in Sintra, Portugal. We talked to one of the nuns briefly
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope St. John Paul the Great, is an in-depth outline of living a life in Christ in
When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this
Another cycle of RCIA and religious education is about to begin. Over the next nine to ten months, many faithful will prepare for confirmation and
